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There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.
With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.
The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.
The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.
I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift.
Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.
The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.
Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.
when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.
Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.
Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.
I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".